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Sumo: Losing its hold on Japan?
Sumo wrestling is struggling in Japan. Fewer Japanese are taking up the sport, so more and more recruits are foreigners - Mongolian, Hawaiian, Bulgarian and Russian. Rupert Wingfield Hayes reports.
(Photo: Mongolian-born grand champion, Hakuho throws his compatriot yokozuna Harumafuji during a bout. Credit: JIJI PRESS/AFP/Getty Images)
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